NATION & WORLD BRIEFS

Space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled for launch this week to bring a new fridge, extra bedrooms, workout equipment and even a half-bath to the international space station.

WASHINGTON, D.C.

A hospital has asked a judge for permission to stop treating a brain-dead 12-year-old cancer patient, even though his parents want to keep him on life support.

MICHIGAN

The Fraser Public Library in suburban Detroit is letting people pay off up to $5 in late fees with food donations.

WISCONSIN

The Public Service Commission is expected to decide this week whether to approve plans for a new $1.3 billion coal-fired power plant in Cassville or Portage.

CALIFORNIA

Off-duty Marines are credited with saving lives after spotting flames at a Lake Forest motel and rousing sleeping guests.

MEXICO

A Mexican archeologist says caves he has explored may be where ancient Mayas tried to depict a terrifying afterlife obstacle course in which the dead had to traverse rivers of blood and chambers full of knives, bats and jaguars. For more on the discovery, see chicagotribune.com/mayan

HAITI

"Everybody is frustrated. We smell the bodies."

--Emmane Petitehomme of Petionville, on clashes with police at the site of a school collapse that killed at least 88. Angry Haitians stormed the school's twisted wreckage Sunday to demand that rescuers speed up a search for victims.

ZIMBABWE

African leaders said Sunday that Zimbabwe's rival political factions should share control of the police ministry in an effort to form a unity government, then devote their time to solving the nation's economic crisis.

CONGO

While skirmishes between rebels and government troops continued to test a cease-fire in eastern Congo, southern African leaders agreed Sunday to send military advisers to the region immediately and a peacekeeping force later if necessary.

GERMANY

A Rwandan presidential aide sought for questioning about the attack on the plane of a former Rwandan president that sparked her country's 1994 genocide was arrested Sunday at Frankfurt International Airport. Rose Kabuye's lawyer said she had agreed to extradition to France and was expected to arrive there in a few days.

RUSSIA

A brand-new Russian nuclear submarine returned to base Sunday after an accident with its fire-extinguishing system flooded two compartments with Freon gas, killing 20 people and injuring 21, Russian officials said. Prosecutors opened a negligence probe.